CPI drops in 6 days.

And your brain is going to nag you about it all week.
A 100-year-old discovery from a Berlin café explains why — and how to switch it off:
In the 1920s, psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik noticed something strange about waiters.
- They held every detail of the UNPAID orders in their heads
- The moment a bill was settled — gone. Wiped.
- In the lab: interrupted tasks were remembered ~2x better than finished ones
Unfinished business stays LIVE in your brain. It's called the Zeigarnik effect.
Every open loop — a trade you're waiting on, a print that hasn't dropped — runs like a background app. Draining focus. Nudging you to "just do something."
That's where boredom trades come from.
The fix (Masicampo & Baumeister, 2011): you don't have to CLOSE the loop. You have to PARK it.
Writing a specific plan for the unfinished task shut the intrusive thoughts off — before anything was actually done.
(Honesty note: the original memory effect has mixed replications over the years. The plan-making fix is the sturdier finding — and the useful half.)
So tonight, write the if-then:
"If the number comes in one way, I do nothing. If it comes in the other — I wait for the close."
Two minutes. Loop parked.
You can't close every loop the market opens. You can park every one of them.
Let's get sharper together 🧭